Category: Book Publishing

Dan Poynter was one of the very few people in the world who was a pioneer in more than one field. One of them was parachuting. In 1972, he released The Parachute Manual – A Technical Treatise on the Parachute, one of the early books on skydiving gear. He continued publishing parachuting books for the rest of his life » Read More

You’re a businessperson. You may not think of yourself as a writer, but you know that writing well can boost your results and your career. Naturally, you want to do better. Every week I point you to articles and blog posts that I think will teach you something or spark an idea or two. Some weeks there are more » Read More

You’re a businessperson. You may not think of yourself as a writer, but you know that writing well can boost your results and your career. Naturally, you want to do better. Every week I point you to articles and blog posts that I think will teach you something or spark an idea or two. Some weeks there are more » Read More

Here we go again. Back in the mid-1980s, PageMaker gave ordinary folks power over the appearance of their documents that they never had before. Many of them reveled in the freedom. The result was often something we called “ransom note desktop publishing.” Suddenly you started receiving those Christmas letters from » Read More

“What do you think of this outfit?” My client’s manuscript would be done within the month and he had reserved time with a professional business book editor. He already decided to use a POD publisher and do an ebook. A friend suggested a company to handle the publishing and promotion. That’s the “outfit” » Read More